Judge Had Absolutely No Sympathy for Mystery Mueller Opponent, Unsealed Orders Show

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Law & Crime


by Colin Kalmbacher | 4:25 pm, February 28th, 2019

A federal judge on Thursday released several redacted trial court records in an ongoing legal battle between the mystery foreign company owned by a mystery foreign country and special counsel Robert Mueller.

Spread across six separate orders and 71 extremely-redacted pages, the newly public information reveals the special counsel filed a document in the case that’s so hush-hush even the serially secretive and mysterious Mueller nemesis doesn’t have access to it.

This document, apparently, was more than enough to convince Chief U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Beryl A. Howell that the foreign company’s commercial activities in the United States bear substantially upon Mueller’s investigation into Russian electoral interference and/or collusion between the Russian Federation and the Trump 2016 campaign.

. . .

To explain: the submission was made solely by the special counsel’s office without any pretense of sharing it with the opposing party and therefore it was submitted ex parte (one party only). This document was also provided to Judge Howell in a cloistered meeting known in Latinesque legalese as an in camera hearing. There’s no argument from anyone that this is extremely secretive and one-sided.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/federal-judge-had-absolutely-no-sympathy-for-robert-muellers-mystery-opponent/

[sandensea]

1. "Mystery foreign company owned by a mystery foreign country"

Vlad, is that you? Or was that you, Bibi?

Hard to tell these days.

[DBoon]

2. Or Mister Bone Saw

[sandensea]

3. All the best people.

[rpannier]

5. The House of Sawd

I'd love it to be them

[sandensea]

11. How do you say thread winner in Arabic!

[Leghorn21]

4. Just look at all the shit Mr. Mueller & Co have to deal with!!! Cheeze!! And all those pages and

pages of whatever it is they have to compose and type up - and those papers better be typed PERFECTLY else there could be trouble in court and he like, loses the case because of one typo ARGGHH

Well, I don’t know if that ever actually happens, but

————Rock steady Mr. Mueller & Co & and all your hard-workin typists———-



RESPECT

[maxsolomon]

6. All i can tell is that this company does business in the US

Can't tell if it's a bank, but it makes sense if it's a bank.

it has to be owned by a foreign Gubmint.

Germany owns 15% of Commerzbank.

Rusher, per Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_enterprises_of_Russia :

Rosselkhozbank 71.9873%

Sberbank of Russia 51% (owned by the Central Bank)

VTB Bank 60.9%

[ffr]

7. Don't mess with Mueller!

[Izzy Blue]

8. Concord Management and Consulting LLC

?

Russian Troll Farm?

[C_U_L8R]

9. What are they hiding?

That's an expensive coverup.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

10. Ok, I must be getting old 'cause

I have no idea what you are saying. Is this a good thing for the Special Prosecutor or a bad thing?

[Princess Turandot]

12. This is just background info on the original proceedings, more than anything else at this point...

... regarding a filing made months ago, but not released at the time.

From the last paragraph of the article:

Bird’s eye view here: Both lower D.C. courts have been unconvinced by the foreign company’s argument that complying with Mueller’s grand jury subpoena would violate the domestic laws of the country from which the company hails. Their last shot is the U.S. Supreme Court-but while they wait on that review and ruling, they’re being fined $50,000 per day.

They argued that they did not have to respond to the GJ subpoena because of regulations protecting foreign governments from such things (aka sovereign immunity). However, the law in question has exceptions, and the SP convinced Judge Howell that one of them applied to this situation. She ordered the company to comply forthwith. So did the next 3 judges, at the Court of Appeals for the DC federal circuit.

SCOTUS then gave them a brief respite before refusing to grant the mystery company a permanent injunction re: the fines. The company next asked for SCOTUS to grant their petition for a full hearing on whether or not they must comply with the SP's subpoena. That arrived when SCOTUS was heading out for their 4-week break, so they haven't responded yet. Meanwhile the fine meter is running. (Note that when SCOTUS refused to give them a permanent injunction in early January, that likely meant that they were not going to convince them to toss the GJ subpoena.)

Except for it being dragged out, it seems like the SP has the upper hand here.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

13. thanks!

[yerop]

14. Mueller Aint Going Away!